Coin-controlled machine for selling cigars.



No. 628,938. Patented July l8, I899. J. V. HOEYE.

COIN CONTROLLED MACHINE FOR SELLING CIGARS.

(Application filed .nm. a, 1898.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-'Sh68f l.

No. 628,938. Patented July 18,1899.

.1. v. HOEYE. I

COIN CONTROLLED MACHINE FOB SELLING CIGARS.

(Application filed Jan. 3, 1898.) "0 3 Sheets-Shem 2.

No. 628,938. Patented July I8, I899.

J. V. HOEYE. COIN CONTROLLED MACHINE FOB SELLING CIGARS.

(Application filed Jan. 3,v 1898., (No Model.)

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JAKE V. HOEYE, OF BOONEVILLE, IOVA.

COIN-CONTROLLED MACHINE FOFtSELLING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 1 atent No. 628,938, dated July18, 1899. Application filed January 3, 189 8. Serial No. 665,265. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAKE V. HOEYE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Booneville, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Coin- Oontrolled Machine for Selling Cigarsfrom Original Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide coin-controlled mechanism forselecting, receiving, and delivering individual cigars from areceptacle.

This invention consists in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of elements herein after set forth,pointed out in my claims,and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aside elevation of the machine, the side of the casing or inclosure beingremoved. Fig. 2 is a plan of the machine, partly in section, on theindicated line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the top plate of the casing or inclosurebeing removed. Fig. 3 isa front elevation of the machine. Fig. 4 is asectional plan of a portion of the machine on theindicated line 4 4 ofFig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail plan of a portion of the coin-trippingmechanism, and Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the mechanism shown inFig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail in elevation of the lower end of thereleasing-bar and yielding-pressure device sustaining the same normally.Fig. 8 is a detail of one corner of the cigar-receptacle.

In the construction of the machine, as shown, an inclosure 0r casing 10is provided with a superstructure or tower 11 rising therefrom andarranged with an opening door 12 in the rear thereof. Machine heads orframes 13 14 are mounted in the casing 10, rigidly connected bycross-bars 15, and stationarily positioned relative to the casing. Ashaft 16 is mounted for rotation in the machine heads or frames and leftside of the casing 10, and

a shaft 17 is mounted for rotation in the upper end portion of the tower11 parallel with the shaft 16. Sprocket-Wheels 18 19 are mounted rigidlyon the shaft 16 and are connected by sprocket-chains 2O 21 to drums 23on the shaft 17. Apexed lugs, studs, or lingers 24 25 are mounted inseries on the chains 21, one of the lugs for each of the links of thechains, and project outwardly therefrom.

The lugs 24 are made of felt, rubber, or other yielding compressibleelastic substance in order that in contacting with the cigars, as,hereinafter described, said lugs will not damage, abrade, or break thewrappers thereof. A receptacle or box 26 is located in an inclinedposition within the tower 11 immediately at the rear of the chains 2021, and the lugs 24 25 extend within said box or receptacle and traveltherein when the chains are actuated. The box or receptacle 26 isremoved and replaced relative to the tower through the opening door 12.Cigars 27 are arranged in a single layer in the box or receptacle 26, asillustrated, and as the box is inserted in the tower the cigars liewithin individual recesses between the studs 24 25 on the chains. Ashaft 28 is mounted for rotation in the frame 13 and left wall of thecasing 10- and is provided with a drum 29, having four concaved faces,which drum preferably is made of or covered with felt or other yieldingmaterial. located immediately beneath the lower end of the box orreceptacle 26, and when said box or receptacle ismounted in the towerthe lower end thereof is released from the sides 31 of the box andfolded backwardly against the bottom of the box, as shown in Fig. 1, topermit the descentof the cigars individually upon the successiveconcaved faces of the The drum 29 is drum 29. It may here be stated thatfor purposes of packing, transportation, and bandling the end 30 of thebox 26 is connected to the sides 31 thereof by a loop or link 32, whichmay be removed before the box is mounted in the tower. The loop or link32 is an angleiron pivoted to the side of the boxby a tack andoverlapping and embracing the end of the box. A large gear-Wheel 33 onthe shaft 16 meshes with a smaller pinion 34 on the shaft 28. the frames13 14, and a gear 36 thereon meshes with the gear 33 on the shaft 16. Apinion 37 on the shaft 35 meshes with a large gear 38 on a power-shaft39, and a convolutc spring 40 is fixed to andwound upon the shaft 39 andconnected at its outer end to a pin 41, seated in the heads or frames 1314. Ashaft 42 is mounted for rotationin the heads or frames 13 14 abovethe shaft 39, and apinion 43 thereon meshes with the gear 38 on the Theshaft 35 is mounted for rotation in 5 angles to form a finger 58.

shaft 39. A shaft 44 is mounted for rotation in the heads orframes 1314,and a pinion 45 thereon meshes with a gear 46 on the shaft 42. Abalance-wheel 47 is mounted on the shaft 44 5 and provided with astop-pin 48, projecting therefrom near the periphery thereof. Thepower-shaft 39 is provided with a key 49, to which manual force may beapplied to wind the spring 40 upon said shaft. A trough or guideway 50is mounted within the casing and leads from a point adjacent to the drum29 to and through a slot in the front wall of said casing, by means ofwhich trough the cigars are individually received from the drum 29 I5and discharged through the front wall of the easing into a position tobe obtained and removed manually.

The train of mechanism above described is actuated by the spring'40unwinding from 2c the shaft 39, and if the movement of the shaft 39 betraced through the train of gears it will be seen that motion isconveyed to the balance-wheel 47 in a high degree and to the travelingchains 21 in a lesser degree. In the travel of the chains the studs 2425 deliver the cigars one at a time upon the successive concaved facesof the drum 29, and said drum, being in the train of gearing, willsuccessively deliver the individual cigars to the trough 50, on whichthey fall by gravity through the front wall of the casing. The train ofgearing or mechanism whereby the cigars are successively delivered tothe drum 29 and by said drum to the trough is stopped 5 bya detent 51,fixed at one end to a shaft 52, which detent successively engagesnotches 53 in a wheel 54, mounted on the shaft 35. A detent 55 is fixedto the shaft 52, journaled for oscillation in the heads or frames 13 14,0 and engages at times with a shoulder on a cam-wheel 56 and at othertimes rides upon the periphery of said cam-wheel. A11 arm 57 is fixed tothe rock-shaft 52 and, extending downwardly and forwardly, is bent atright A rock-shaft 59 is journaled in the machine heads or frames 13 14,adjacent to the rock-shaft 52, and a detent 60 is fixed to said shaft 59and extends rearwardly therefrom into the orbit of travel 50 of thestop-pin 48 on the wheel 47 or adjacent thereto.

A releasing-rod 61 is positioned vertically in the casing 10 and extendsthrough the top plate thereof, which rod is stepped at its lower 55 endin a socket 62 and rests on an expansive coil-spring 63 within saidsocket, Fig. 7. A chamfered-faced releasing-lug 64 is fixed to andextends rearwardly from the releasingrod 61 within the casing 10, and anarm 65 is 60 fixed at one end to the rock-shaft 59, extends across,above, and in close proximity to the finger 58 of the arm 57, and hasits forward end located in the plane of reciprocation of the lug 64 andimmediately below said lug.

65 Thus in the downward movement of the releasing-rod 61, effected bymanual force applied to the upper end of said red, the lug 64 willengage the forward end of the arm 65 and depress said arm, thusoscillating the shaft 59 and raising the rear end of the detent 60 intoa position to engage and stop the travel of the stop-pin 48 on thebalance-wheel 47. In its downward movement the arm 65 engages anddepresses the finger 58 on the arm 57, thereby oscillating the shaft 52and raising thedetents 51 and 55 from thedetent-wheel 54 and cam 56,respectively. This operation releases the mechanism or train of gearing,which under the impulse of the spring 40 moves in regular order, thedetent 55 riding on the cam 56 and, acting through the rock-shaft 52,retaining the detent 51 out of engagement. with either of the notches 53on the detent-wheel 54. The train of mechanism moves until the stop-pin48 engages and is stopped by the detent 60 and then ceases its movementuntil the releasing-rod 61 is freed from the depressing manual force andpermitted to return under the expansion of the spring 63, at which timethe arm 65 is released and the detent 60 falls out of the path of thetraveling stop-pin 48, permitting the resumption of movement 011 thepart of the train of gearing. The train of gearing or mechanismcontinues to move a predetermined distance measured by the periphery ofthe cam 56. In the rotation of the cam 56 the shoulder thereon isbrought into contactwith the hooked end of the detent 55, andsimultaneously therewith the hooked end of the detent 51 drops into thenext succeeding notch 53 of the wheel 54 and locks the mechanism. Thepredetermined distance of travel of the train of mechanism is coincidentwith the necessary distance of travel of the chains 20 21 required todeliver a single individual cigar from the receptacle 26 into one oranother of the concaved faces of the drum 2.).

Normally the releasing-rod 61 is restrained from material downwardmovement by the engagement of a lug 66 thereon with a hook, stud, orprojection 67 on a tripping-wheel 68, which tripping-wheel is mountedfor oscillation on a shaft 69, supported by the heads or frames 13 14.The tripping-wheel 68 is heavier on one side than the other, slightlyoverbalancing toward the releasing-rod 61, and the movement ofoscillation of the tripping-wheel is limited by a pin 70, seated in andprojecting from the frame or head 13 into a notch.7l, formed in theupper portion of the periphery of said wheel and extending some littledistance along said periphery. Thus when the tripping-wheel is in itsnormal position, overbalancing toward the releasing-rod, it is heldagainst further movement and through the lugs 66 67 prevents thedownward movement of the releasing-rod in that direction by the pin 70.The lug 66 normallyis out of engagement with the lug 67 of thetripping-wheel in order that the tripping-wheel may be tilted oroscillated in the direction opposite to its normal balance by the weightof a coin or check of predetermined size an d specific gravity. An

a distance as will admit a check or coin 75,.

of predetermined size and specific gravity, that is inserted through theingress-port 72 and tube 73 and rests upon the yoke 74:. The weight ofthe coin or check 75 is sufficient to overcome the counterbalancing ofthe tripping-wheel and tilt or oscillate the same in such a manner as tocause a movement of rotation sufficient to elevate the lug 67 beyond thelug 66 and permit a downward movement of the releasing-rod 61 undermanual impulse.

A stud or projection 76 is fixed to and extends inwardly from the frameor head 14, med a leaf or wing 77 is hinged at one end to the inner endof such lug, stud, or project-ion and extends outwardly therefrom and atright angles thereto horizontally beyond the periphery of thetripping-wheel (58. The leaf or wing 77 is held normally with a lug 78thereon in contact with one side of the tripping-wheel 68 by aleaf-spring 79, fixed to the stud 76 at one end and extending outwardlyin contact with the rear face of the leaf. The leaf or table 77 isprovided with a book 80, of right'angled form, fixed to one face thereofand projecting outwardly therefrom. An arm 81 is fixed to thereleasing-rod 61 and extends forwardly therefrom and is bent downwardlyabove the space between the outer arm of the hook 80 and the adjacentface of the leaf 77. A wedge-shaped lug or cam 82 is fixed to andextends downwardly from the downturned end portion of the arm 81 and isprojected into the space between the hook 80 and adjacent face of theleaf 77, with one of its chamfered faces in contact with said hook. Inthe downward movement of the releasingrod, permitted as heretoforedescribed, the wedge-shaped lug 82 acts upon the hook 80, moving saidhook laterally, and with it the leaf 77, away from the adjacent side ofthe tripping-wheel 68 against the resilience of the leaf spring 7 9. Thedownward movement of the releasing-rod 61 is limited by the engagementof the arm 81 with. the upper edge of the stud or projection 76 prior tothe passage of the Wedge-shaped lug 82 beyond the hook 80. The outwardmovement of the leaf 7 7 relative to the tripping-wheel is sufficient torelease the coin or check from the yoke 74 and permit said coin or checkto fall within the forward portion of the casing, from whence it mayberemoved by means of a locked door 83 in the front wall of the casingwhen desired by the operator. A slot 84L is formed in the centralportion of the wing or leaf 77 and is traversed by the shaft 69' of thetripping-wheel, thus providing means for the free oscillation of theleaf, as described. The at-- taching end portion 74 of the yoke74, whereby said yoke is secured to the tripping-wheel, is inclinedinwardlypartially across the face of said wheel to provide a retainingseat wherein the coin or check 75 temporarily is held pending therelease thereof, as described, Fig. 5 and dotted "lines, Fig. 6. releaseof the coin or check 75 from the tripping-wheel said wheel of its ownspecific gravity resumes its normal position, as shown in Fig. 1 of thedrawings.

I claim as my invention-.1.-

VI. A coin-controlled cigar-vending maehine,.comprising the followingelements in combination, to wit: A spring-actuated train of gearing;stop mechanism whereby said train of gearing is looked; a release-bararranged for manual actuation to release said stop mechanism from thetrain of gearing; tripping mechanism whereby the release-bar normally islocked and arranged to be coinactuated for tripping; conveying mechanismarranged to deliver the cigars successivelyand operated by the train ofgearing; a receptacle for the cigars wherein the conveying mechanismreceives and moves the individual cigars; a discharge-chute; and acasing in closing the mechanisms.

2. A coinactuated cigar vending machine comprising a receptacle for thecigars, conveying mechanism arranged to carry the cigars collectivelyfrom the receptacle and discharge the said cigars consecutively, a drumor measuring-wheel arranged to receive the cigars consecutively from theconveying mechanism, a chute arranged to receive the cigarsconsecutively from .the drum, mech- Upon the A anism for driving theconveying mechanism and drum,lockingmechanism,manually-actuatedmechanism for releasing the locking mechanism, a coin-released trippingmechanism for alternately locking and releasing the releasing mechanismtogether with a casing inclosing the mechanisms.

3. A casing arranged to receive a box of cigars, a conveyer arranged toreceive and convey the cigars from the box, spring-actuated mechanismactuating the conveyer, delivery mechanism arranged to receive thecigars from the conveyer and deliver the same, locking mechanism, areleasing rod or bar arranged for manual actuation to release thelocking mechanism, and coin-controlled tripping mechanism arranged torelease and lock the releasing bar or rod alternately.

4. In'a machine of the class described an inclosing casing, a door forsaid casing whereby a box of cigars may be inserted within the casing,conveying mechanism arranged to receive the cigars from the box,adelivery-drum arranged to receive the cigars from the conveyingmechanism, a chute arranged to receive cigars from the drum anddischarge the same outsidethe casing and coin-tripped manually-releasedspring-actuated driving mechanism whereby the conveyer mechanism anddelivery-drum are actuated and controlled.

5. In a machine of the class described a conveying mechanism comprisingadriving-shaft, sprocket-wheels on said shaft, a countershaft,drums on the counter-shaft, sprocket-chains traveling on thesprocketheels and drums aforesaid, apexed and cushioned studs on saidsprocket-chains, a cigar rack or box arranged to contain cigars andreceive the studs on the chains, and an inclosing casing, in combinationwith a train of gearing attached to the driving-shaft, a spring fordriving said train, locking mechanism in said train and coin-releasedtripping mechanism for releasing said locking mechanism.

6. In a machine of the class described a conveyer having a driven shaft,a train of gearing driving said shaft, a spring driving said train ofgearing, a branch train of gearing driven from the first said train,stop ,actuationof the rod.

JAKE V. HOEYE.

Witnesses:

E. T. DUFUR, F. E. DUFUR.

